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Filming Action Scenes with a Letus 2 Years, 6 Months ago Karma: 0
Most of my Letus experience has been confined to tripod work but I need to shoot some action scenes and am curious how others do it?

How do you shoot action and keep everything in focus? Focusing while you are running, or even while the action is moving fast, isn't always easy to do.

Manually focusing these prime lenses is not fun when either the camera or the action is in motion.

Thoughts?

Thanks!

Dave
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#3672
Re:Filming Action Scenes with a Letus 2 Years, 6 Months ago Karma: 9
Using a wider lens will give you deeper focus and make the choreography look more dynamic as well. Stop down the lens as far as you can to increase your depth of field.
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Re:Filming Action Scenes with a Letus 2 Years, 5 Months ago Karma: 0
Practice! However, buying a follow focus adapter will make life easier. I can fully reconmend the RedRockMicro 'Follow Focus v2'.
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Re:Filming Action Scenes with a Letus 1 Year, 7 Months ago Karma: 0
Yeah, the real key is a wide angle where infinity focus STARTS at around 10 feet. Makes this much simpler.

Another thing I practice is setting the focus to a specific distance, then hand held moving around keeping that distance from the subject. It seems more natural to move towards or away from the subject, than twisting the lens (or knob).
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